USH - Manifest Destiny - Church

• same time period as the development of art and literature

• belief that God had given us (Americans) the right to own all the land between the two oceans

• starts right after the war

• took off in the middle of the century

• John L. O’Sullivan
o coined the phrase “Manifest Destiny”
o 1845

• U.S. doesn’t technically own all this land

• painting: “Manifest Destiny”
o star on forehead… new states
o bringing education & learning (books)
o bringing technology (telegraph wire)
o lighter colors in east because that was what was known (the familiar)

• who went west?
o farmers
o miners
o woodsmen
o hunters
o trappers
o typical families (covered wagons)
o outlaws (no law out there yet)

• railroads moving west

• Native Americans and buffalo herds being pushed farther away